# Para que é que serve exatamente o e-mail Let's Encrypt?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-exactly-is-lets-encrypt-email-used-for/367838
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** letsencrypt
**Created:** [Maio 27, 2025, 9:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-exactly-is-lets-encrypt-email-used-for/367838 "2025-05-27T21:51:58Z")
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### Author: ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [Janeiro 20, 2026, 4:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-exactly-is-lets-encrypt-email-used-for/367838/4 "2026-01-20T16:38:37Z")

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> [@LETSENCRYPT\_ACCOUNT\_EMAIL no longer needed](https://meta.discourse.org/t/letsencrypt-account-email-no-longer-needed/393831?u=falco):
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> As of June 4, Let’s Encrypt stopped sending email notifications about failing renewals, which was the only reason to have that ENV variable set. I just ran discourse-setup-ruby and didn’t get a email address for LETSENCRYPT\_ACCOUNT\_EMAIL and now Discourse won’t work because the clever logic refuses to request a certification if there’s no email address. It’s been almost a year since including an email address in that variable did anything. So this if needs to be deleted:

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